τάδʼ (tad)

τάδʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ὅδε, meaning “this (here), this one”. It is the accusative plural neuter pronoun.

Found 475 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.46.2: … ντας ξυγκαθαιρήσει, ἢν μὴ αὐτὸς βούληται μεγάλῃ δαπάνῃ καὶ κινδύνῳ ἀναστάς ποτε διαγωνίσασθαι. εὐτελέστερα δὲ τάδ’ εἶναι, βραχεῖ μορίῳ τῆς δαπάνης καὶ ἅμα μετὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἀσφαλείας αὐτοὺς περὶ ἑαυτοὺς τοὺς Ἕλληνας κατατρῖψαι …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.41: διαφωνοῦνται δὲ καὶ αἱ ἀποφάσεις αὐτῶν καὶ ἄλλου ἄλλο φασίν, ὡς ἐκεῖνο· ἦν Λακεδαιμόνιος Χίλων σοφός, ὃς τάδʼ ἔλεξε· μηδὲν ἄγαν· καιρῷ πάντα πρόσεστι καλά. στασιάζεται δὲ καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ αὐτῶν. Μαιάνδριος μὲν γὰρ ἀ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 8.55: ἀλλʼ ὑπὸ τᾷ πέτρᾳ τᾷδʼ ᾄσομαι, ἀγκὰς ἔχων τυ,

All forms of ὅδε (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.